On the death of his father he succeeded to the editorship-in-chief of the three important Russian papers then controlled by the Sou-verine family, and he ably upheld the high Journaliatic standards of With the fail of the Tsarist empire it was only natural that a man controlling such power as he would be a much wanted individual, and hho recalls with no little amusement an episode in his exeape from Russia that provided more thrills than eared to contemplate. Armed with Papers that disclosed him as one Marka; a mechanical worker on a His earliest recollections active life after gaining his majority centre round the stion of his father, then editor o? the "Novoie Vremia," where gathered persona alities "from every quarter of the earth, a medley of brainy, amen and beautiful women, who made their name in' their particular fields of activity and were famous personages of the day, or was the gathering limited to any particular field, for his father was a well known dramatist and had such extensive interests in the arty and sciences as to make him avant of the first order.
Among others he recalled the tal, 1 aried form of Tolstoy, alone in newspaper, he was on a train in the company of Prince Obolensky and Count Koutouzoff, who like self were frivolling in disguise and were well known Whites, At wayside station came aboard a Bolshevik officer of the Intel-Nigenea Department who, after going over the papers of the three, announced he was looking for For two days ed; until sud~ in the dst of a bridge game the Prince forgot himself enough to call the ex-editor by name. Instantly the detective entered the scene, announcing that he had always' been suspicious of Souvorine and intended taking him off at the next station, ite broodiness: vivaciousness that was the rotund figure Taft, then M iter of War and Aer to be President of the United lates; and the great Commoner of the Empire in the West, William Jennings Rryan, net to mention the napping black ¢ves and astute man-rot Count Witte foremost among Russian diplomats, Another cherished recollection is that of a frail dark-halved youth. who displayed such a fait for jour-matism that the elder Souvorine anaule a place for him on the paper fine in after years never regretted it. for the enibryonie writer went for longer works then news-
Yeriting and the name of Anton Chickove his since been high among the great portrayers life as it is.
The famed Jerome K. Scrome, called among other works for his making play, "Passing of "the Third Flour Back," came to Russia at the height of his fame and was a close friend of the editor's son, With: the cessation' of the Russo-apanese War came the peace con-
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